garrbear758 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:46 am
The only thing I would do 80 lore on is a 26/4 bard/pally(bg), a warlock, or a pure bard. Both bards can get it to 80 with pretty minimal gearing. Warlock has the room for an ESF lore. Anything else I wouldn't bother going above 50 unless you are really flexible on feats and gear
Minor correction to this:
Bard still has to do some barrel scraping to hit 80, because the skill bonus from song
does not count.
Skill Ranks, Intelligence modifier, + Lore on equipment, the Dwarven bonus to Lore, Courteous Magocracy , Skill Focus: Lore and Epic Skill Focus: Lore, 1/2 of the Bardic Knowledge Lore bonus
A 26/4 bard with full ranks in lore and an average 2 int mod is still only at 48 lore for scroll purposes. Rings of lore properly enchanted can help out a fair bit, and get you to 58. Making up the remaining 22 points gets a little harder, unless you spring for ESF:lore (at which point you can do +2 lore on boots, neck, gloves, belt, +5 on witchunter's cloak to get you to 81). There's usually a bit of a problem with this, though, even with ESF:Lore.
Div bard is a pretty demanding build to gear properly, since it doesn't get the boost to duration on aura of glory or bg bulls that make deeper paladin/bg builds more forgiving on the gear front. This means a lot of tristat runic stuff. It also wants at least a fair chunk of skills from its gear, so you're looking at 3 stats + perform + some spread of disc/sc/listen across everything else. If you go for lore, you're probably just looking at tristat/perform/lore gear, and you're not
really happy about those lore rings/witchhunter's cloak either. It's actually probably playable, if you go that route, but at this point, we're looking at the investment of an epic feat, slightly off-preference ring and cloak slot items, and bumping some 8-10 points of a different skill that you want.
It's definitely doable, but the gearing is still a fair cry from "minimal", and I'm not really sold on it being worthwhile at the cost.